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The Department of Conservation & Recreation’s Division of Natural Heritage is seeking candidates for a Natural Areas Protection Manager position #00401 located in Richmond. DCR’s Natural Heritage Division is the state program responsible for identifying and protecting Virginia’s natural communities and rare species and managing the State Natural Area Preserve System.…

We have an immediate opening in our Los Gatos office for a full-time, entry-level plant ecologist/plant biologist. This person will conduct field studies, including plant community mapping, rare plant surveys, and wetland assessments and delineations, and will prepare a variety of reports/technical studies, including biological resource reports, resource agency permit applications,…

Augustana College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor in botany/evolutionary biology/ecology beginning with the 2016-2017 academic year. Augustana College is a selective liberal arts college of approximately 2,500 students, most of whom live on a wooded 115-acre campus. Rock Island, Illinois is one of the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities along…

The Botany conference program chairs have decided to move up the deadline for symposium proposals to help with their planning process. The new deadline for proposals is July 1st. This will allow sponsoring societies and sections of BSA to discuss symposium proposals at their business meetings in Edmonton during Botany…

Enter the Faces of Biology Photo Contest
Help the public and policymakers to better understand the breadth of biology by entering the Faces of Biology Photo Contest. The winner will receive $250 and have their image published on the cover of BioScience.
The competition recognizes scientists who use imagery…

George R. Cooley Award for Best Contributed Paper in Plant Systematics - 2015
Each year the American Society of Plant Taxonomists recognizes an outstanding paper presentation by awarding the George R. Cooley Award to the presenter of a paper judged to be the best among those eligible. Candidates for the award…

New! Innovations in Plant Systematics Education Prize (IPSEP)Prize Description: One prize ($500) will be awarded to an educator who has developed novel and innovative resources for teaching plant systematics (broadly interpreted) to undergraduate and/or graduate students.
Applicant criteria: Must be an ASPT member and teach at the undergraduate and/or…

New! Undergraduate Research Prize (URP)
The URP is ASPT's new undergraduate research prize (initiated in Jan 2013), where up to three ($300) prizes may be awarded each spring for an outstanding, independent research project in plant systematics (broadly interpreted) completed by an undergraduate student within the last 2 years.
Prize Description: …